How Much do the Weekends Cost?

The price varies between each individual site depending on the place where the retreat is held. Most of the weekends are offered for an average of $130.00 for the entire weekend. This price includes your room, all your meals, and all retreat materials. Most all the Rachel’s Vineyard sites have financial assistance or they can work out a monthly payment plan so that money is not an obstacle for your participation. Some sites are able to offer those in financial need a complete scholarship.

You need to e-mail or phone the Rachel’s Vineyard contact at the site you wish to register to find out specific details regarding the weekend you would like to attend. To view a listing of weekends by date, click here. You can also call our toll-free hotline at 877-467-3463.

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Testimonials

On a trip to Mexico, her parents’ homeland, Rosemary Medeiros was visiting a chapel for adoration when she heard a voice say, “I have forgiven you; now forgive yourself.”

“I walked out shocked,” she said. “I knew in my heart it was the abortion I’d had 33 years earlier.”

When she was just out of high school and still living with her parents, Rosemary had become pregnant the first time she slept with her now husband, Joey. Ashamed and terrified that her father would throw her out, she and Joey had gone to a clinic for an abortion.

“I walked out of there feeling so empty,” she said. “It changed everything about me.”

After her experience in Mexico and back in the United States, Rosemary started listening to Catholic Radio. There she heard about Rachel’s Vineyard, a nationwide ministry that runs weekend retreats for women and men who seek healing after abortion.

She asked Joey to join her for the Friday-through-Sunday retreat in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco.

“Initially, I thought, ‘That’s so far in the past, why do we have to revisit it?’ ” Joey said. “But I wanted to support her, so I went. And it was a very healing experience. I was able to absorb and feel what had happened. Until then, I didn’t know how to deal with the hurt.”

The secret the two of them had shared for decades was now out in the open: They told their four grown children. And Rosemary began telling her story to help After the Choice, a ministry of the Oakland, Calif., diocese, spread the word about healing after abortion. After the Choice connects women and men suffering from post-abortion guilt and regret with spiritual healing, mostly at Rachel’s Vineyard weekend retreats.

Upcoming Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats in the Mid-South:

Western Kentucky
(Owensboro area):
April 5 through 7, 2019
November 8 through 10, 2019